Chasing biomimetic locomotion speeds: Creating untethered soft robots with shape memory alloy actuators

Xiaonan Huang,Kitty Kumar,Mohammad Khalid Jawed,Amir Mohammadi Nasab,Zisheng Ye,Wanliang Shan,Carmel Majidi

Chasing biomimetic locomotion speeds: Creating untethered soft robots with shape memory alloy actuators

2018

Xiaonan Huang
Kitty Kumar
Mohammad Khalid Jawed
Amir Mohammadi Nasab
Zisheng Ye
Wanliang Shan
Carmel Majidi

By using compliant lightweight actuators with shape memory alloy, we created untethered soft robots that are capable of dynamic locomotion at biologically relevant speeds.

Keywords:

Actuator
Control engineering
Shape-memory alloy
Robot
Computer science
shape memory alloy actuators
Mechanical engineering

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